1. Fall 2011 Word Processing

3. Word Processing: Word Processing is the use of computers to prepare documents.

6. The concept of a typewriter dates back at least to 1714, when Englishman Henry Mill filed a vaguely-worded patent for "an artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another.“

8. The name "QWERTY" for our typewriter keyboard comes from the first six letters in the top alphabet row (the one just below the numbers). It is also called the "Universal" keyboard for rather obvious reasons. It was the work of inventor C. L. Sholes, who put together the prototypes of the first commercial typewriter in a Milwaukee machine shop back in the 1860's.

9. The keyboard arrangement was considered important enough to be included on Sholes' patent granted in 1878 (see drawing), some years after the machine was into production.

12. The term word processing was invented by IBM in the late 1960s. By 1971 it was recognized by the New York Times as a "buzz word". A 1971 Times article referred to "the brave new world of Word Processing or W/P. That's International Business Machines talk... I.B.M. introduced W/P about five years ago for its Magnetic Selectric typewriter and other electronic razzle-dazzle.“

13. History of Word ProcessorsSee also:

15. The machine still looked like a computer, that’s for sure. But who cared? It was silent. It magically knew when to start a new line – no mental arithmetic and wrenching of a lever to tell the paper to move up. It didn’t matter how many mistakes you made – you simply typed over them. Tippex became redundant. If Mr Harris wanted to make multiple changes to a 60-page document, it was a simple operation, no need to retype the whole thing. There were keys that instantly found the word you were looking for; went to a particular page number, replaced multiple instances of words.

17. an early PC Word Processor: No Mouse!

19. The evolution of Word 2002-2010 Word XP Word 2003 Word 2007 Word 2010

20. More on the evolution of Word and the changes in Word 2007 The Why of the New UI (Part 1) Ye Olde Museum Of Office Past (Why the UI, Part 2) See MSDN Blogs > Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog

22. The Quick Access ToolbarCustomizable

23. The Ribbon

25. In most of the Microsoft Office 2010 programs the Office Button (which was only introduced in Office 2007), has been replaced with a File menu. This is not the same as the File menu in Office 2003. This new File Menu leads in to the Microsoft Office Backstage™ view which not only shows the popular functions of Open, Save, Save As, Print etc… but also the recently view files section has been enhanced to include a recent locations too.

29. "Cloud Computing" is a somewhat nebulous word to describe users "renting" or borrowing online software instead of actually purchasing and installing it on their own computers.

30. All of the processing work and file saving will be done "in the cloud" of the Internet, and the users will plug into that cloud every day to do their computer work.

32. The Microsoft version Skydrive on Windows Live

33. A 2010 conclusion:or is it more 1990?